Yi ethnic minority girls wait to participate in a traditional performance to celebrate the Torch Festival in Butuo County, Sichuan province, China, on July 18, 2017. #

The Soyuz MS-05 spacecraft carrying the crew of Paolo Nespoli of Italy, Sergey Ryazanskiy of Russia and Randy Bresnik of the U.S. blasts off to the International Space Station from the launchpad at the Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan, on July 28, 2017. #

Thousands of rubber ducks float down the Chicago River during the Windy City Rubber Ducky Derby on August 3, 2017 in Chicago, Illinois. Derby organizers drop 60,000 rubber ducks from a bridge above the river to start a race which helps to raise about $350,000 for Special Olympics Illinois. The sponsor of the first duck to float across the finish line is awarded a new SUV. #

Ronnie Pfeiffer, a plumber with the Architect of the Capitol, spreads chlorine pellets in the reflecting pool in Lower Senate Park on Capitol Hill to deter algae growth following recent heavy rains in Washington, on July 31, 2017. #

A flag flies in front of a store in Nipton, California, on August 3, 2017. American Green Inc., one of the nation's largest cannabis companies, announced it has bought the entire 80 acre California desert town of Nipton. Full story here. #

A New York State Environmental Conservation officer salutes as an ivory sculpture rolls up a conveyor belt into a crusher on August 3, 2017, in New York's Central Park. The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation destroyed illegal ivory confiscated through state enforcement efforts. #

Mounted riot police stand by around the National Congress where security was reinforced due to a protest against President Michel Temer, in Brasilia, Brazil, on August 2, 2017. Brazilian lawmakers began voting Wednesday on whether to authorize a corruption trial for President Michel Temer, with the center-right leader confident he can avoid becoming the country's second leader in 12 months to be forced from office. #

Raquel Santiago stands in front of the access to a tunnel that suddenly appeared under her house in the old Rimac sector in Lima, Peru, on July 31, 2017. A neighbor, convinced that there was a gold treasure hidden under her house, had dug a large tunnel reinforced with wooden beams, like in a mine shaft, that eventually undermined the foundations of Santiago's house. #

Finishing touches are put on an art piece on the final day of 'Upfest,' Europe's largest street art festival on July 31, 2017 in Bristol, England. The annual event, in the hometown of guerrilla artist Banksy, started in 2008 and is now Europe's biggest street-art festival, attracting more than 350 artists from across the globe to live paint on walls and surfaces in 37 locations around Bedminster and Southville over three days. #

A couple wearing headphones and virtual reality goggles experience the Rhizomat VR art piece by artist Mona El Gammal at Martin-Gropius-Bau on July 28, 2017 in Berlin, Germany. The work is a 360 degree 12-minute movie about an underground movement rebelling against a global, private company that has replaced the state and monitors people with the promise of security and stability. #

The Rio Grande forms the U.S.-Mexico border while winding through the Santa Elena Canyon in the Big Bend region on August 1, 2017 near Lajitas, Texas. Logistical challenges, such as the terrain of Big Bend in west Texas, are just some of the complications facing the construction of a border wall proposed by President Trump. #

A two-month-old snow leopard, during one of its first outings on August 2, 2017 at the zoo in Mulhouse, France. Three Snow Leopard cubs, Kouraï, Tiksi and Zima were recently born to mother Tawa at the zoo. #

Mariam Traore, an 8-month-year-old migrant from Ivory Coast, moves in a chair near her mother's room at the former prison of Bijlmerbajes, in Amsterdam, Netherlands. With crime declining in the Netherlands, the country is looking at new ways to fill its prisons. The government has let Belgium and Norway put prisoners in empty cells and following the huge flow of migrants into Europe, several Dutch prisons have been temporarily pressed into service as asylum-seeker centers. Photographed on June 27, 2017. #

Dominic Geraghty's dog Edward sleeps in his waistcoat after descending Croagh Patrick holy mountain during an annual Catholic pilgrimage near Lecanvey, Ireland, on July 30, 2017. #

Residents ride in a truck as Mount Sinabung releases pyroclastic flows during its eruption in Karo, North Sumatra, Indonesia, on August 2, 2017. The volcano blasted volcanic ash as high as 4.2 kilometers (2.6 miles), one of its biggest eruptions in the past several months of high activity. #

U.S. Navy Blue Angels fly during a practice session over boats lined up along a log boom on Lake Washington in Seattle on August 3, 2017. The team will perform Friday, Saturday and Sunday in the annual Seafair Air Show. #

Young Hindu priests take a holy bath together as part of a ritual during the sacred thread festival at the Pashupatinath temple in Kathmandu, Nepal, on July 28, 2017. Hindus take holy baths and change their sacred threads, also known as ianai, for protection and purification during the festival. #

An anti-government demonstrator rests behind a barricade in Caracas, Venezuela, on July 30, 2017. Venezuelans appeared to be abstaining in massive numbers in a show of silent protest against a vote to select a constitutional assembly giving the government virtually unlimited powers. #

Supporters of Kenyan presidential candidate Raila Odinga wave as he departs in a helicopter after addressing a rally held by his coalition party, The National Super Alliance (NASA), in Kisumu on August 3, 2017. Raila Odinga, Kenya's veteran opposition leader and one-time prime minister, is taking his fourth run at the presidency in an election next week. The 72-year-old has been a mainstay of Kenyan politics since the 1980s but has never achieved his presidential ambition, his career emulating that of his father, Jaramogi Oginga Odinga, who led the opposition for three decades but never the country. #

Circus company Elixir performs at Camera Obscura and World of Illusions during a photocall for the Edinburgh Festival Fringe on August 1, 2017 in Edinburgh, Scotland. #